I mean, I played THROUGH gta V and.. well. I don't remember where killing some bitches happened. is it that you can go to the strip club and shoot people there? or on the street? like you can shoot the men there as well?
I think they're talking about the "pick up a prostitute to regain health, and then run her over afterward to get your money back" game mechanic that's existed since GTA 3. I assume said mechanic still exists in GTA 5 (which I haven't gotten around to playing).
I would certainly be interested in a bio-based Diesel oil just from an environmental perspective, but I don't actually need it since my VW is an old one (1998 A4) that doesn't suffer the post-injection problem. It can safely run anything full-synthetic and CF-4 or better, so I usually put Shell Rotella T6 in it.
Incidentally, one of the major reasons I'm still driving that '98 is that (because of their inability to use biodiesel, lower fuel economy, and HPFP failures) I think the new cars are actually not as good as the old ones, which is unfortunate.
My other car runs Valvoline NextGen (which is 50% recycled); even a diesel-spec version of that would be nice...
I'm tired of providing the citation, I've done so several times recently, and we discussed this on slashdot with a whole front page story and everything. Gasoline vehicles produce more soot than previously believed, there's some search keywords.
Apparently I missed that story (might have been because I was on vacation recently). Thanks for the search keywords.
This is only true when they've decided both to depend on a fuel quality sensor and cheaped out on it, and/or when they chose to use seals incompatible with biofuel. There's nothing inherent about the emissions technology that prevents using biodiesel/green diesel, which burns cleaner than petrodiesel and thus taxes the emissions equipment to a lesser degree.
I'm thinking specifically of Volkswagen common-rail diesel engines (the most common non-truck diesels in the US), which have some particular problems with biodiesel:
During DPF active regeneration, post-injection causes biodiesel to dilute the engine oil, resulting in reduced oil life (or excessive engine wear, if you don't know to change the oil more frequently)
Using biodiesel also can prevent the DPF from heating up enough for the regeneration to be effective
Biodiesel can foul the NOx catalyst
In theory, the regen cycle and NOx catalyst could be designed with biodiesel in mind and these problems wouldn't exist... but VW didn't do that, and (practically speaking) the only engines that matter are the ones that actually exist. The best we can do is retrofit them to compensate (e.g. remap the ECU's post-injection cycle, remove the NOx catalyst, etc.), but that violates EPA rules so it "doesn't count" (legally speaking) as a solution.
Soot production goes way down on biodiesel, as do CO and CO2, but NOx goes up.
I drive in a VOC-limited region (where the extra NOx produced by my use of biodiesel helps reduce ozone), so I always forget about that.
Common sense would be if the judge dispensed with the "flirts with" qualification and declared the demand to be "frivolity and abuse," and then awarded attorney fees and court costs to the defendant.
More importantly, the judgement failed to uphold the negative view as non-defamatory, but rather ruled against the plaintiff because the entity being defamed was a separate legal entity (the corporation owning the website, not the plaintiff personally). In fact, the judge ruled that:
[32] Surely, the Defendantâ(TM)s use of the word "cheated" may sound harsh but I cannot conclude that this whole affair implies that the Plaintiff personally is a cheater, a liar, a dishonest person or that the Plaintiff defrauds his clients.
[33] The word "cheated" carries a pejorative connotation. Furthermore, the doctrine of "fair comment" or "truth of the statement" is not a defence [sic] to an action for defamation. Had the Defendant specifically and publicly allege that the Plaintiff has personally "cheated" her, the use of such word would have been defamatory.
In particular, the judge's opinion that ' the doctrine of "fair comment" or "truth of the statement" is not a defence [sic] to an action for defamation' makes this a bad ruling!
Maybe you live in some frozen arctic wasteland, but that doesn't mean we all do. In my area, we'd be more likely to use the power generated to run the AC.
Indeed, and the interface is the entirety of the distinction between an iPad and a normal computer. So why go out of your way (and pay extra) to introduce that problem?
From this perspective, fission power is almost an environmental win-win: it's "clean" under normal circumstances, and if there's an accident then you just get an excuse to create a new human-free nature preserve!
The french are trying to move away from diesel engines because they get less money when you buy diesel, the taxes are lower, period the end.
That makes exactly zero sense, since if they want more money they could simply raise the tax rates.
Gasoline engines produce more carcinogens than diesels. They produce just as much soot as diesels, and nearly all of the soot is PM2.5.
I'm a fan of diesels and would like to believe this, but [citation needed].
Diesels produce more PM2.5 after emissions technology than they did before, but they produce less soot overall.
The sad thing about that emissions technology is that it prevents most engines from being able to accept biodiesel (without being explicitly redesigned for it, anyway)... but running biodiesel in an older-style engine reduces the emissions enough to probably not really need the fancy technology in the first place (except for soot, maybe).
Except it's apparently only more transparent on the English-speaking Internet (actually more specific: English-speaking and not Australian-focused), not on sites in other languages.
No. The Party put them in office; the "people" didn't really have a choice. Here's how it works:
The Party (doesn't matter which one, R or D) gerrymanders the district so that the other party has no chance
The Party chooses a crook to run under its flag.
Nobody else runs because they can't possibly win
Since only the Party Crook is on the ballot, he wins because half the "people" are too stupid to abstain or write in somebody
You might try to argue "well the people need to be smarter then," but you have to remember that the people are A) stupid to begin with and B) bombarded with propaganda and indoctrination from birth specifically designed to make them forget they have choices.
Although on the surface, that statement is technically correct (the best kind of correct), it is a bit disingenuous when folks stretch that definition to imply a lack of rules.
I can agree with that, but the rules should be more along the lines of "every able-bodied adult is required to own a firearm and attend marksmanship training regularly," not "we're going to make it as hard as possible for private citizens to own a gun."
The U.S. Constitution was written by people who had just violently overthrown their government, who were quoted saying things like "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." If the American Revolution were happening today, King George would be calling them "terrorists." And you think the 2nd Amendment somehow doesn't suggest using force against government oppression?
It's perfectly possible that it is purely an AMD performance issue, maybe there's no equivalent nVidia posting because there's no fucking performance problem on nVidia cards because that's what they built against and tested on?
If Ubisoft built and tested a game intended to run on consoles exclusively on nVidia hardware, they're goddamn morons because all the consoles use AMD chips!
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I think they're talking about the "pick up a prostitute to regain health, and then run her over afterward to get your money back" game mechanic that's existed since GTA 3. I assume said mechanic still exists in GTA 5 (which I haven't gotten around to playing).
I would certainly be interested in a bio-based Diesel oil just from an environmental perspective, but I don't actually need it since my VW is an old one (1998 A4) that doesn't suffer the post-injection problem. It can safely run anything full-synthetic and CF-4 or better, so I usually put Shell Rotella T6 in it.
Incidentally, one of the major reasons I'm still driving that '98 is that (because of their inability to use biodiesel, lower fuel economy, and HPFP failures) I think the new cars are actually not as good as the old ones, which is unfortunate.
My other car runs Valvoline NextGen (which is 50% recycled); even a diesel-spec version of that would be nice...
That probably isn't the only reason. I'd be willing to bet that the jail's population has a higher percentage of blacks than the city's population.
Apparently I missed that story (might have been because I was on vacation recently). Thanks for the search keywords.
I'm thinking specifically of Volkswagen common-rail diesel engines (the most common non-truck diesels in the US), which have some particular problems with biodiesel:
In theory, the regen cycle and NOx catalyst could be designed with biodiesel in mind and these problems wouldn't exist... but VW didn't do that, and (practically speaking) the only engines that matter are the ones that actually exist. The best we can do is retrofit them to compensate (e.g. remap the ECU's post-injection cycle, remove the NOx catalyst, etc.), but that violates EPA rules so it "doesn't count" (legally speaking) as a solution.
I drive in a VOC-limited region (where the extra NOx produced by my use of biodiesel helps reduce ozone), so I always forget about that.
Common sense would be if the judge dispensed with the "flirts with" qualification and declared the demand to be "frivolity and abuse," and then awarded attorney fees and court costs to the defendant.
More importantly, the judgement failed to uphold the negative view as non-defamatory, but rather ruled against the plaintiff because the entity being defamed was a separate legal entity (the corporation owning the website, not the plaintiff personally). In fact, the judge ruled that:
In particular, the judge's opinion that ' the doctrine of "fair comment" or "truth of the statement" is not a defence [sic] to an action for defamation' makes this a bad ruling!
There exist (commercially-produced) solar-powered compressors that don't use electricity as an intermediate step? Sounds interesting; got a link?
Yes, "after noon" and also "not yet evening."
Extremist views like RMS's are necessary, lest the moderate view appear extreme.
Well, the Nexus 5 is a combo GSM/CDMA device (compatible with Sprint, at least), and they make downloadable updates available for that...
Pro tip: "afternoon" means before sunset, by definition. If the sun sets at 15:30, then 14:30 is "late afternoon."
Maybe you live in some frozen arctic wasteland, but that doesn't mean we all do. In my area, we'd be more likely to use the power generated to run the AC.
Indeed, and the interface is the entirety of the distinction between an iPad and a normal computer. So why go out of your way (and pay extra) to introduce that problem?
From this perspective, fission power is almost an environmental win-win: it's "clean" under normal circumstances, and if there's an accident then you just get an excuse to create a new human-free nature preserve!
That makes exactly zero sense, since if they want more money they could simply raise the tax rates.
I'm a fan of diesels and would like to believe this, but [citation needed].
The sad thing about that emissions technology is that it prevents most engines from being able to accept biodiesel (without being explicitly redesigned for it, anyway)... but running biodiesel in an older-style engine reduces the emissions enough to probably not really need the fancy technology in the first place (except for soot, maybe).
Except it's apparently only more transparent on the English-speaking Internet (actually more specific: English-speaking and not Australian-focused), not on sites in other languages.
And this part of the story should have been an even bigger media circus than the initial accusation, but mysteriously wasn't. Hmm....
No. The Party put them in office; the "people" didn't really have a choice. Here's how it works:
You might try to argue "well the people need to be smarter then," but you have to remember that the people are A) stupid to begin with and B) bombarded with propaganda and indoctrination from birth specifically designed to make them forget they have choices.
Do you ever run across companies who need a civil engineer who is also a programmer (or vice-versa)?
I can agree with that, but the rules should be more along the lines of "every able-bodied adult is required to own a firearm and attend marksmanship training regularly," not "we're going to make it as hard as possible for private citizens to own a gun."
Good thing we have one!
I mean, I know Anonymous isn't my personal army, but I hope it'll go after this just the same.
The U.S. Constitution was written by people who had just violently overthrown their government, who were quoted saying things like "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." If the American Revolution were happening today, King George would be calling them "terrorists." And you think the 2nd Amendment somehow doesn't suggest using force against government oppression?
If Ubisoft built and tested a game intended to run on consoles exclusively on nVidia hardware, they're goddamn morons because all the consoles use AMD chips!
All the consoles run AMD chips. Therefore, getting rendering performance right on AMD was really, really fucking important.
<typical stupid gamer>But if I wait I'll miss out on the preorder bonus DLC!</typical stupid gamer>
If a declaration of war mattered, then Al Qaeda's acts could be excused by their declaration of jihad.